How much does that factor into their success. For example I keep hearing fellow tiger fans try to persuade us that coach O will be successful bc he "loves LSU". I say they are delusional. Your most elite college coaches will be successful no matter where they are. Saban, Meyer, and others have been successful at multiple schools and it's not bc they love a college or not, it's bc they know and have what it takes to run a successful program. I would bet that saban's feelings to Alabama is pretty impartial but he's there and he wins.

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Posted by Bench McElroy

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Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:36 pm to roguetiger15

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How much does that factor into their success.

Pretty much zero and I'll tell you why. Think about all of the top head coaches in the SEC in recent years. How many top SEC coaches had significant SEC coaching backgrounds before they got their job? I can think of only one. That's Phil Fulmer at Tennessee. Nick Saban was almost exclusively a Big 10/NFL guy before he was hired by LSU. Most of Les Miles' coaching experience was at Michigan and Oklahoma State. Mark Richt was an assistant with Bobby Bowden forever before he got hired by Georgia. Urban Meyer had pretty much coached everywhere except the southeast before he was hired at Florida. Nothing in their backgrounds suggest that any of those guys harbored special feelings towards the schools they ended up coaching at but they all did very well.

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